News and updates about whatever it is I am into at the moment
I'm a student at the Free University of Berlin. I enjoy hacking and messing about with LaTeX.
In case you should whish to contanct me you can do so at carlos@cmartin.tk. To subscribe RSS 2.0 feed
The new version of Blam is out. The 1.8.8 will be the last of the 1.8 release branch. From now on, development will go towards the 2.0 release, which includes changing the way internal data is stored. The changes, as taken from its homepage are: Translation updates (thanks to the GNOME translation team) Show the [...]
Meebey uploaded the Mono 2.6 packages to his repo today, so I decided to finish porting blam to WCF and the supposedly perfect SyndicationFeed class, which should make the underlying feed format irrelevant. Big mistake, the code hasn’t been touched in six months and there are some pretty big bugs in it. First, when reading [...]
I have been on holidays for a few weeks and now I have enough free time that I can continue developing Blam. Today I integrated a patch that adds a context menu to the tray icon and finally implemented drag-and-drop. This means you can move channels into groups, between groups and out of groups by [...]
I returned a few days ago from Berlin where I did the “Immatrikulation” so now I’m officially a university student in Germany, namely an FU-Berlin student. I’ll go back in October to start the lessons. The subjects seem interesting but I am weary of one: Function Programming. We are supposed to write Haskell apps and [...]
Tags: blam, de, university
The Internet’s Alp Toker has ported blam to use WebKit/GTK+ instead of Gecko. This is a much needed change that I was going to postpone until after 1.8.6 in the hope that webkit-sharp was considered stable then. As it turns out, gecko-sharp won’t be shipped with Lenny, so blam is going to ship with WebKit [...]
I have just released blam 1.8.6pre1 as anticipation to the real release. Debian users should have packages available later today and only need to download the .deb from http://cmartin.tk/blam/ and install it. There is also a debian archive at ‘deb http://cmartin.tk/debian/ sid main’ but it’s probably better not to use it as of yet. Update: [...]
identi.ca